„we aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.“
Robert Baden-Powell8
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„Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality.“
— Robert Nozick American political philosopher 1938 - 2002
Context: Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.
The Nature of Rationality (1993), Ch. V : Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits; Rationality's Imagination, p. 181
„Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.“
— Lewis Mumford American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic 1895 - 1990
Context: Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner. In life, we must begin to give a public performance before we have acquired even a novice's skill; and often our moments of seeming mastery are upset by new demands, for which we have acquired no preparatory facility. Life is a score that we play at sight, not merely before we have divined the intentions of the composer, but even before we have mastered our instruments; even worse, a large part of the score has been only roughly indicated, and we must improvise the music for our particular instrument, over long passages. On these terms, the whole operation seems one of endless difficulty and frustration; and indeed, were it not for the fact that some of the passages have been played so often by our predecessors that, when we come to them, we seem to recall some of the score and can anticipate the natural sequence of the notes, we might often give up in sheer despair. The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
„The aim of life is to attain peace. No one can give us peace. We can't buy or borrow it. We have to cultivate it by practicing yama and niyama [yoga restraints and observances].“
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923
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„The very idea of a Christian political theology is problematic. If human beings are only transitorily on earth, and earth is but a vale of tears through which we must pass on our way to paradise, earthly politics loses almost all value. Life in the polis cannot be the good life for man, since fulfillment lies in the hereafter; here below, we must prepare for eternity. Earthly happiness for rational persons consists in whatever confidence they may entertain about the life hereafter. This “abstentionist” vision is in some ways at odds with the involvement of Christ in the everyday life of the community in which he spent his short life.“
— Alan Ryan British philosopher 1940
„Presumably those who profess and call themselves Christians believe their religion to be in some sense true; but in what sense? … The truth of the Christian faith is the truth of a faith, or a way of life which shows itself true … for those who live it.“
— Donald M. MacKinnon British philosopher 1913 - 1994
"Our Contemporary Christ," in Borderland Theology and Other Essays (1968), p. 82
„Christian life meant a separation from the standards of that world: you couldn't be a Baal-worshipper, you couldn't sacrifice to idols, be a sodomite, practice infanticide, compatibly with the Christian allegiance. That is not to say that Christians were good; we humans are a bad lot and our lives as Christians even if not blackly and grossly wicked are usually very mediocre.“
— G. E. M. Anscombe British analytic philosopher 1919 - 2001
„The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.“
— Georg Büchner German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813 - 1837
„Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.“
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
Humboldt's Gift (1975) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18944-0], p. 5
„Defined by its purpose, its [education's] main aim is not to impart the specialized technique of any particular trade or profession, but to develop the faculties which, because they are the attribute of man, are not peculiar to any particular class or profession of men, and to build up the interests which, while they may become the basis of specialization at a later stage, have a value extending beyond their utility for any particular vocation, because they are the condition of a rational and responsible life in society.“
— R. H. Tawney English philosopher 1880 - 1962
„Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.“
— Walt Disney American film producer and businessman 1901 - 1966
Walt Disney interview, New York Times, (March 1938).
